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...issues that attracted Perot's voters all remain on the table. Both Lamm and Perot promise an aggressive agenda of deficit reduction, campaign reform and entitlement cuts, problems that worry the swing voters who will decide this race. And even more promising, neither Bill Clinton nor Bob Dole has shown any inclination to talk about such meaty issues. Clinton served up another course of dainty presidential tapas, like overhauling the nation's meat-inspection system and cracking down on truants. He looked almost visionary compared with Bob Dole, who couldn't make up his mind on what he really thought...
Still, authenticity is served. All the numbers are built on the era's vintage tunes and formats--the loose, buoyant ensembles (Moten Swing and a hypnotically undulating Pagin' the Devil), the "cutting sessions" (Yeah, Man, a fiery face-off between the tenor saxes of Redman and Craig Handy), the crescendoing call-and-response riff patterns (I Left My Baby, whipped to a fervent pitch by Curtis Fowlkes' swaggering trombone), the galloping flag wavers (Lafayette, a raucous vehicle for trumpet soloists Nicholas Payton, James Zollar and Olu Dara) and the rococo after-hours ballads (I Surrender Dear, in which James Carter...
...Harvard's public service programs move into full swing for the summer months, students and administrators continue to work toward a compromise on the controversy about who will have control over--and liability for--the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bob Dole is in a bind. Just as he was planning on a hard campaign in Midwestern swing states, the Southern territory that Republicans have long taken for granted is slipping. A few days after the GOP rejoiced that Dole had closed the polling gap with President Clinton from the double digits to 6 percentage points, a New York Times/CBS poll shows that Clinton enjoys an overall lead of 6 percentage points in Dixie. "The only reason a few more Southerners, who are traditionally solidly Republican, are open to Clinton now is because he is a Southerner, regardless...
...Portraits in Blue, Roberts gives Gershwin's material the full post-Armstrong treatment; simply put, he makes it swing. Even the famous opening--the skyward clarinet glissando--is given a new twist. Roberts instead starts the piece with what he calls "a series of improvised statements," the first being the forlorn sound of a single banjo. Gershwin's 1920s piano rolls have set a high standard for pianists to follow, but Roberts' performance on this CD adds some graceful verve. His fleet-fingered improvisations--constant, probing, thoughtful--provide color to an already multihued work without seeming merely ornamental. After hearing...